This is probably one of the most commonly mispronounced words in the English language. The r in February has been dropped so that it is almost always pronounced Febuary–without the r. Perhaps this is because placing the r sound in the word makes it slightly more difficult to pronounce, and since laziness tends to get the upper hand when we speak, Febuary has become the common pronunciation. However, despite this, the word is correctly pronounced February. The English language has enough silent letters as it is. Remember to keep the r sound in February.
All the letters are sounded in February. The first “r” is NOT silent, and the month is not pronounced “Feb-you-a-ry”, but “Feb-roo-a-ry”. You don’t get beer from a bewery after all, but a bRewery, and the Boston hockey team isn’t the Buins, but the BRuins. I don’t understand why people find it so hard to pronounce February right.
@Elizabeth Andrews
Do you also wince at those of us who pronounce the word “Past” as “Passt”, as opposed to “Parst”, I wonder?
Language evolves, get used to it.
oh nice a commentary on how education isn’t what it use to be. How f’ing original.
Even more ubiquitous these days is the dreadful “Feb-you-ary”, with a strong “y” sound. But it’s not hard to pronounce the word properly – people simply are not taught to do so any more.